User Reviews for Clonazepam (Klonopin)

I have adhd along with pinched nerves that cause me horrible headaches and neck pain along with a numbing, throbbing pain that goes from my neck to my arms. In the early morning I take my adhd medicine that really helps me a ton and at night time around 8 pm I take the Klonopin for anxiety, sleep and pain and it helps with all three. I am only on 1 mg at night but so far has helped me so much. The only reason that nothing is working now is from horrible withdrawals from Cymbalta. I forgot to take it for 2 days due to a ton of things going on personally and realized I was having withdrawal symptoms so I decided to get off of Cymbalta. I have had a headache from the day I stopped that hasn’t gone away. If not for that my daytime medication helps a ton and then my night time medication helps me sleep all night pain free. I like Klonopin better than Xanax as Xanax gave me to much of a false sense of wellbeing Read More Read Less

My PCP prescribed this for fibromyalgia and GAD. Within a short time after my first dose, my muscles began to relax and the pain started going away. After a few months I was symptom free with no pain on most days. I took 1-2mg per day for over 10 years and was eventually able to taper off with NO WITHDRAWAL symptoms. The key is to taper very slowly. I took 3-4 months to taper off letting my body have time to adjust. This is a good medication when properly prescribed.

I really appreciate how fast acting this works. On rough anxiety days, sometimes you need an immediate aid. For me, this worked exactly as it should. I don’t feel the need to use it constantly or overuse, which I know can be a problem, and why they prescribe it carefully. In the right hands, this can make a monumental difference in your mental clarity and health.

Caused cognitive impairment. Masks other drugs manic effect. Serious addiction issue. Lack of courage and depression due to it is a serious behavioral issue

A fantastic drug for non drug Addicts! But after taking for awhile the only way to stop taking is a slow tapering off accompanied by A constant headache and could take years! So make sure you need this Drug for Restless Leg Syndrome! The only reason I would prescribe and drug was invented for!

I have been prescribed 0.5 mg of klonopin for almost three years and even the thought of taking one during a panic attack will calm me down!

The only mental med that makes me feel comfortable with myself

This medication is worse than any of the pharma pandemics going on at the moment. I was prescribed due to panic attacks that i was getting from using recreational drugs, which i wish my doctor would've just told me to stop using said drugs and I would've been fine. Instead he prescribed me Klonopin. Very very long story short, it worked well for six months and then I started having severe adverse affects from the drugs. I then realized how awful it is to taper off these medications. I have tapered off of plenty medications in my past time but nothing comes even close to this. I know have severe intrusive thoughts of hurting others and myself which i never had prior to the Klonopin use, I either feel like a walking zombie or I want to tear my skin off, and much more symptoms that are too long to list. I have been tapering safely for around a year and a half and it has been pure utter torture. Please just knowledge yourself of the dangers of this drug. With all this being said I am trying to meet in the middle and say that I am not against it but it should be taken when needed and not of every day use. Unfortunately, my prescription was 2mg tablet split up 1mg morning 1 mg night. Now I can barely talk, walk, work, you name it. I was once a division 1 goalkeeper that played semi professional soccer for the u-23 rowdies and had a contract for the Florida Elite USL 2 team and now I, like many others that have a similar journey, would describe myself as disabled. Please please consider my story before taking these medications. Much loveRead More Read Less

I have been taking .25 mg once a day for about 3 years now for severe anxiety. My psychiatrist put me on it when I was enduring intense physical pain, psychotic and dissociative episodes, crippling anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, neurological/nerve symptoms, and insomnia. I desperately needed an intervention, even though I was hestitant, he made the right call with clonazepam, because I was truly in hell. It has helped me. Clonazepam has allowed me to regulate my sleeping and has definitely lowered my anxiety. I am able to function better. Also it doesn't feel like my tolerance has gone up. I feel like this medication is still as effective as it was when I first started taking it. I suggest taking the lowest dose possible because you really don't need a lot for it to work, in my experience anyway. I intend to never get off of it. At this point I can't imagine my life without it. I was able to get through so much horror in my life because of it. I also meditate and do a lot of stuff like that, so I recommend meditating and doing similar therapies along with this medication and for anxiety in general to get more benefit.Read More Read Less

CPTSD & other related conditions kept me on Xanax for decades. Detox with medical care, supervision n& drug cocktails was effective. However, I had to become psychotic briefly for 1/8 mg more of Xanax to stop. My new Psychiatrist has been weaning me off it from 5mg day, to .5 mg 2 x day with .5 to use if panicking. Now I’m off of Xanax! He began Klonopin ER .5 2x day. I’m not done withdrawing from the Xanax yet. The Klonopin really works. I feel normal (I think). It’s been one day though….. So, what can I expect? How do I get off the Klonopin? How bad is Klonopin WD if I get hooked? What do I take next (usually)?Read More Read Less

If I take 1 mg of Klonopin it lessens my anxiety, thus lessening my fibromyalgia pain, which gives me a lot of energy and ability to get things done

After 14 years on Imipramine that surpressed my 24/7 6 month panic disorder that started on August 8th, 1986, I had breaktrough symptoms in 1998. I then have sucessfully been treated as I write today using 1.0 mg Clanazepam (2023) with absolutely no side-eefects affects. When I wake up I feel normal, and unlike my experience with xanax (1986) in Graduate school, I raised to kids by my self and worked as a scientist with national security clrearance. Based on my behavior and positive input from my peers, the FBI agreed that my description that the medication did not impair my work in four five year reviews (2000) (2005) (2010) (2015). I retired in 2019 and continue working on my doctorate. Alcohol brings out oncerning impairment, which is why the two are only combined right before bed. I live a hyperactive yet functional life at the age of 64, learning Spanish in Mexico and engaged in the best life I could have hoped for. And when /i moved here and looked for a doctor in San Diego, they said I needed to get of Cloanepam because it caused Alzheimers. I read the studies. I do not believe I fit into that cohort.Read More Read Less

I have been on .50mg of Klonopin since about 2009. From 2009, for 1.5 years I had to split the pill to make it .25mg - I am so drug sensitive that it took me that long to adjust the full .50. From 2011(?) until mid 2015, I continued to take .50mg, once a day, at night. Mid-2015 I went off the drug but NOT because it was not working. My then life conditions changed and I was able to exist without it. From 2018 through 2019, I went back on it at .50mg, once a day, at night. I managed to acquire a different medical condition which was being affected by stress and generalized anxiety, so to improve the medical condition, I went back on this drug. Near the very end of 2019, I read a Harvard (?) study suggesting long term use could impact you as far as Alzheimer's or Dementia. I decided to go back off it. I would still be off it if not for Covid! The Covid 19 lockdown affected my life so much, that by May 2020, I did need to go back on Klonopin. IMPORTANT: Although indicated as an addictive drug and I personally DO HAVE an addictive personality type, I have never since 2009 gone over .50mg a day, taken at night. Regarding other side affects, other than the initial dose in 2009 which did make me wobbly and I had to reduce to .25, I have not had a single side affect from this drug! I do some really intense work with numbers, formulas, all sorts of minutiae, and I am fully functional at 6 hours after taking my .50mg. I am really sorry this drug gets such a bad rap because for me it really works. It was ultimately decided by MULTIPLE doctors and PAs, that at the very low dosage I am on I am not likely to encounter the negative long-term issues normally associated with any drug in the benzodiazapine family. Read More Read Less

Klonopin or clonazepam is the only medication yhat has controlled my debilitating panic attacks without feeling like I am on any "drugs". I take 1 mg 2-3 times daily. If home all day only 1 mg. This medicine is a life saver. Do not listen to the fools who talk bad about its reputation. Ssris and anti psychotic have worse side effects and what happens to a diabetic when they stop their insulin? They're diabetes comes back. Same thing with people getting "scared off of benzodiazepines" they end up living a bad quality of life out of some false conception that it's wrong to take a medication for a MEDICAL CONDITION because you might have to take it for life. Does a chronic pain patient considered an addict if he takes his prescribed vicodin without abusing it? No he is not. Neither are people who suffer from anxiety or panic disorder that find LIFE SAVING RELIEF from Klonopin.Read More Read Less

Hello , I was taking clonazepam and stopped. The only drug that can destroy the effects of clonazepam is carbamazepine. So if you have panic attacks and seizures, tell your doctor to prescribe carbamazepine. Do you sad and worry about the future? Do not worry about the future because we are unaware of our future. If something goes wrong, we should worry, not worry about the problem. Remember, when we die, should the moments of death was worries or our love and affection? In the shelter of God.

I take 1 mg klonopin for anxiety and to help with sleep. I have always been on same dose. If I run out of pills i cannot sleep at all and feel like I am having a heart attack. Over time the pills are not as effective but will not up dose bc I am already addicted. Also I am experiencing memory loss. At first I thought these pills were the greatest but not so much now. The pills should not be used every day bc of addiction and tolerance. Personally I need to also find an effective anti depressant.Read More Read Less

Klonopin destroyed my life and damaged my whole family especially my young daughters. It was given to me for panic to take as needed. It does calm you quickly but at the highest price. Very real side effects include paranoia, fatigue, confusion, and impaired judgement. I made several terrible terrible business decisions while taking it. But the worst side effects come when you stop it. For me zero sleep insomnia, chest pain, fatigue, muscle loss, emotional emptiness, and SUICIDAL thoughts/acts that go on and on. It has been four months since my last dose and all I do is lay in bed. My body is mush. My daughters are watching their once vibrant dad erode to nothing and I am helpless. Read More Read Less

I had od on Xanax, and then sent over too a behavioral health hospital and well there for a 8 days I was talking klonopin twice a day this drug would give me nightmares and I thought it was because of the place I was in but my first day out of the behavior health Hospital I found out that is one of the side effects

I have found this to be exponentially better for my situation than something like xanax, because of the longer duration. However, I highly recommend taking it on days when interaction is necessary. If taken every day, it doesn't seem to be *quite* as beneficial.

In 1997, Age 55, male, occasional low levels of hypomania. My doc was testing for an effective Rx regimen and prescribed Klonipin. I had an intense, horrible allergic reaction beginning within about 20 minutes and lasting about 24 hours. The reaction was neurological, an intense itching over my entire skin surface. It seemed almost unbearable, couldn't releive it by scratching, bathing, laying down, standing up, using creams, ointments, etc. It felt like every nerve in/on my skin was afire/'screaming'. Nothing releived it. Never again. All from one little pill. Now 78 and the only other extreme alergy reactions I've ever had are to statins.Read More Read Less